Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons

Learn more: https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

okay, I'm beyond mere pleas to wear a mask today. there's a quad-demic going around, a new H5N1 pandemic on the horizon, fucking polio and measles and shit popping up because people's immune systems have been collectively weakened by getting COVID several times a year, and the CDC now essentially compromised.

we're beyond "just" COVID now. it's our responsibility to take care of our own. wear a fucking respirator.

Hmmm. I think I’ll try this with all the big tech Usual Suspects and see how it goes?

Uh, yeah, I'm ticked off at the pusillanimous whining of the D-party and groups like MoveOn.

I attended a MoveOn meeting. And it was like they talked at us, not *with* us. And it was all "oh we are going to file lawsuits" and other things that amount to campfire songs against an earthquake.

As for D-party members of Congress - yeah, you are a minority. But you have voices and bodies. In Congress you can block business as usual and try to starve the monster. You may fail, but you've got a bigger pulpit than we do. And you can go out and make your faces the face of active resistance - figure out where the Musk-ites are sleeping and keep them awake - do something apart from saying "we are powerless waifs who can do nothing more than plea before powerless courts."

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/democrats-jeffries-move-on-indivisible-trump

Snoopy is gone! He was fine just a few days ago.

I guess the abbreviated name of the group is Anti-EM.

#USpol #USAID

What borders on stupidity?

Mexico and Canada.

You've probably read lots of stories about how the upstart Chinese AI chat company DeepSeek could be a security threat, but where's the beef? Well, the people at the mobile app security firm NowSecure have published a security and privacy analysis of the app's design and behavior, and it's not pretty. Here's the lede:

"New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies — introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/experts-flag-security-privacy-risks-in-deepseek-ai-app/

Netanyahu Gives Trump ‘Golden Pager’ After Assassinating Enemies With Similar Device https://www.mediaite.com/politics/netanyahu-gives-trump-golden-pager-after-assassinating-enemies-with-similar-device/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Robinhood seems to be taking a lesson from the crypto world. “Sports bets” are now “event contracts”, and “gambling” is now “an emerging asset class”. Perhaps the next pickpocket to be caught by police should try informing the officer that they’re merely democratizing finance!

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Something said by a conservative acquaintance: “Making the Palestinians leave Gaza isn’t genocide, it’s basically the same thing we did when we put the Native Americans on reservations”

Dude, you’re so close.

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

#Google #BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #USA #capitalism #fascism

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States - The Onion

https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

@spaf telepathy over the internet, or TP/IP, is an inexact science.

Swing state lawmaker warns Trump's newest 'power trip' is 'just the beginning' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-climate-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Democratic leadership has convinced itself that each yes vote on a Republican nomination somehow banks political capital for the future. What future? When your opponent announces their intention to end democracy as we know it, what exactly are you saving your political capital for?

https://www.theindex.media/its-scorched-earth-time/

The number of telepaths on Mastodon is amazing!

When I post something, even though they don't know me, they suddenly have deep insight into everything I believe and all the actions I have ever taken. It's amazing!

Of course, being wrong about perhaps 90% of the time means they aren't very good telepaths...